For people who suspect they are capable of far more — and are ready to find out.
Ascent is a small, carefully chosen group of builders who come together — in person — to grow faster than any of them could alone. You come up through it. Then you belong to it for life.
The people who thrive here arrive from everywhere. What they share isn't what they do — it's how they're wired.
Deeply curious. High-agency — you make things happen rather than wait. Humble enough to keep learning. And quietly certain you're meant to build something that matters, even if you can't yet name what.
You don't have to be exceptional to enter. You have to want to become it.
There is very little formal structure here, and that is on purpose. Transformation comes from immersion — not instruction.
You become the average of those around you — so we are obsessive about who is in the room.
Trust, courage and taste don't transmit through a screen. Ascent is built around real time together.
Not by listening. You take on real, consequential things in the open, and the room helps you make them better.
You can try, fail and be seen mid-climb without fear. That safety is the soil real growth needs.
The climb earns you a place in something lasting. You become a YE Stack Fellow — part of a community of people who carry the same belief and are bound to the same journey for life.
Fellows go on to build companies, lead teams, shape products and push research. But the title isn't about any one outcome — it's about who you've become, and who you now belong to.
Then you turn around, and leave cairns for the ones coming up behind you.
Ascent has been running for years before it ever had a name. What you've read isn't a plan — it's a description of something that has already changed the trajectory of the people who came through it.
Nobody arrives ready. They arrive curious, and a little impatient with who they are today. If that's you, we'd like to talk.
I became the entrepreneur I always wanted to be. Through the system.
From my teenage years, I always believed I was different — that I could achieve something no one else could. So after college I didn't want a normal job. I started my own company at twenty-two. It went nowhere. I had the intent and the dream, but not the skill set or the mindset. No network. No one with me.
Then, in 2019, I came across Arun and YE Stack — just a few of us around a small table. Even then, I knew I was in the right place. Arun told me that if I stayed until I was thirty, I'd achieve what I really wanted. I didn't know what I was signing up for. I just wanted to become someone like him.
I got thrown into the deep end again and again, and the room let me make mistakes and learn from them. I tried sales, then marketing, and finally found product. I joined TGH Tech as COO and went on to lead it as CEO, learning closely from Arun and Anand. I learned how to collaborate, how to lead, how to think for others — how to be a better human being.
When I was ready to move on, YE Stack gave me the chance to build Projectsmate, and even helped me find a co-founder through the system itself. That's where it really happened. I became a more confident person.
Now I'm thirty, and I can confidently say I am exactly where I wanted to be. I became the entrepreneur I always wanted to be — through the system. And now I'm ready to shape others in the same way.
If you want to build a business, go build — don't just seek stories.
From childhood, “ambition” was always with me. To become a national cricket player, then a defence officer — there was always something or the other to chase. I ended up as a merchant navy cadet. It was the COVID lockdown that pushed me to explore different ideologies — economics, finance, and finally the world of business.
I realised that building a business was the stepping stone to the ambitions I was seeking. But I had no business background, and no acumen. How do you even start?
I found a batchmate with the same enthusiasm. We met multiple entrepreneurs and businessmen in town to understand how they began — and finally we met Anand M Davichan. He told me, “If you want to build a business, go build — don't just seek stories.” That was one of the key turning points.
We started a lassi business on our college campus and joined the YE Stack community, where I gained far more perspective and understanding of how to build a business.
After college, I joined YE Stack as an Entrepreneur in Residence — a group of aspiring entrepreneurs who want to build something. From door-to-door selling to taking meetings with foreign clients, from selling jackpots to coding, I've tried more than seven business initiatives and gained exposure across many skillsets. Three years of hustle brought me to the exact point where I am now.
Today I'm part of TGH Enterprises — an organisation where all my devotion comes into place, where the canvas in finance is so big that I need to lead and fulfil its goals. Having YE Stack fellows together in the company is making us reach the vision even faster.
You are the average of who you spend your time with.
My journey began at a college festival, where my friends and I presented a barely-functional, city-based social media app. One of the judges — Anand, then just twenty-five — asked sharp questions about vision and strategy. I improvised my way through the answers, but something landed. He introduced me to a circle of ambitious people who wanted to build something significant. As I remember it: we weren't talking about building random products or ideas — we were talking about big ambition.
When colleges shut during the COVID lockdown, I reconnected with Arun and found my way into Mastermind Clubs — small groups trading ideas about entrepreneurship and shared resources. Reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad flipped a switch. I went from barely reading to devouring non-fiction, and the way I saw the world began to change entirely.
But the real shift wasn't the books or the frameworks — it was proximity. Being around mentors like Arun and Anand made me more patient, more curious, more willing to learn. You are the average of who you spend your time with, and mine changed. My ambition went from wanting to be “the CEO of Google” to believing I could build something far bigger.
I joined YE Stack and experimented across project after project — TGH Tech, CineTokens, Meeval — learning the hard way that building anything means understanding the problem, knowing the audience, and having the patience to iterate. Through all of it, that community stayed my constant.
Today I work as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, building toward something far more ambitious than the titles I once chased — and trying to make things that genuinely matter.